Oh, I don't know about pushing OCFS/OCFS2, I think ASM is where the big push from oracle is. You are right, about this chicken and egg syndrome, but 12g is a LONG way out. We are still waiting 11gR2, right? jason. -- http://jarneil.wordpress.com On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Bradd Piontek <piontekdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would think storing the OCR and voting disks in ASM would be an issue, as > ASM is just another cluster resource and is generally brought up by ASM. My > guess is they'll be pushing the use of OCFS/OCFS2 a bit more. > > Bradd Piontek > Oracle Blog: http://piontekdd.blogspot.com > Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/piontekdd > > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> We were discussing this over here, and the big question we came up with >> is: >> >> >> >> "Does this mean that simply raw devices a la old school Red Hat >> (/dev/raw/raw1) are desupported, or that all character/non-buffered IO >> devices are desupported (a la /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 or /dev/sda2 with >> O_DIRECT)?" >> >> >> >> If the former, it's a non-issue for most environments, if it's the latter, >> it opens up a host of questions around what will be supported. Effectively, >> it requires that people have a clustered filesystem to use, or somehow >> Oracle jobbies up ASM such that you can put OCR and voting internally and >> making ASM a dependency for CRS to run. >> >> >> >> Matt >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: >> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *dba1 mcc >> *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:30 PM >> *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> *Subject:* Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices >> >> >> >> Redhat RHEL 6 will also NOT support raw device. >> >> >> >> --- On *Thu, 8/7/08, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>* wrote: >> >> From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices >> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 11:02 AM >> >> For those using Raw Devices (wether for Redo Logs in non-RAC or for >> >> Database Files as well in RAC), >> >> see MetaLink Note#578455.1 "Announcement of De-Support of RAW >> >> devices in Release 12G " >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hemant K Chitale >> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com >> >> >> >> "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a >> >> 'Yes' >> >> merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." >> >> Mohandas Gandhi >> >> Quotes >> >> : http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mohandas_gandhi.html >> >> >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> >> >> > >